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Bike Tour Taps San Francisco’s Water Innovations
When most San Franciscans turn on a faucet, they'll see water that's traveled as far as two hundred miles from Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. But that's not the case for some locally-minded gardeners, for whom careful water stewardship is as important as selecting their crops.
July 27, 2010
Of Cable Cars and Whales
The invention of cable cars in 1873 by Andrew Hallidie is an oft-told saga, with a perhaps apocryphal point of origin on a rainy winter day in 1869 when he saw a team of horses pulling a horsecar up a steep grade on Jackson Street between Kearny and Stockton. One horse slipped, the car man slammed on his brake but it broke, and the horses and streetcar ended up at the bottom of the hill in a mangled, mutilated mess. Andrew Hallidie wrote that he wanted to construct a public transit system that would alleviate the “great cruelty and hardship to the horses engaged in that work.”
July 19, 2010
The Heyday of Horsecars
Editor's note: This is one in an occasional series of stories on the history of transit in San Francisco.
June 14, 2010
Wind Powered Transportation…Back Then
This is the second installment of a slow journey through San Francisco transit history. All of this information is derived from our Shaping San
Francisco collection that you can explore on Foundsf.org.
May 13, 2010
Put it on the Street, A Look at Curbside Recycling
(Editor's note: this is the latest installment from contributor Chris Carlsson, The Nowtopian)
April 30, 2010
Walking through the Sand
I’ll be slowly going through San Francisco transit history over the next few months. All of this information is derived from our Shaping San Francisco collection that you can explore on Foundsf.org. Also, I'll be conducting a 4-hour "Transit history" bike tour on Sat. April 24. Today we start where it all began, in the sand.
April 12, 2010